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Originally Posted by hennaz
how could a country
as rich and developed as JAPAN lose over 12,000 people to an earthquake?
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Japan didn`t.
It lost them to a tsunami.
I think the count for the earthquake itself was in the low hundred range.
It was the tsunami that followed which ended up causing all the deaths. The earthquake alone knocked stuff down but didn`t do THAT much damage. You can prepare for shaking - you can`t really prepare too much for a huge surge of water that submerges and washes everything away.